Reuters highlights the Atlantic Council event Empowering America: How Energy Abundance Can Strengthen US Global Leadership in an article about the US Senate Energy Committee narrowly passing a bill to lift a forty-year-old ban on the export of crude oil:
Murkowski and Democratic Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, released an Atlantic Council report on Wednesday called “Empowering America: How Energy Abundance Can Strengthen US Global Leadership” that recommending lifting the ban, to allow the drilling boom to be an asset in foreign policy.
It was Warner’s first signal that he is open to lifting the ban. In addition, Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, who is on the energy committee, said on Thursday he supports repealing the restriction, though he did not vote for the bill.